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of India both in houses and in open country, sheltering under 
stones in the latter situation. It rarely occurs, however, in the 
Himalayan hill stations. 
Calotes versicolor (Daud.). 
Common all over Parésnath. The specimens obtained were 
to some extent intermediate between the form gigas of Blyth, 
which is the common race all over S. India and Ceylon and also in 
Orissa, and the smaller form with less strongly marked sexual 
characters which is characteristic of the Himalayas, Lower Bengal 
and the countries to east of the Bay of Bengal. C. versicolor is 
common in both the East and the West Himalayas up to an alti- 
tude of at least 5,000 feet, but Dr. J. R. Henderson tells me that 
he does not think that it ascends so high in the hills of the Madras 
Presidency, in which it is replaced at comparatively low altitudes 
by peculiar mountain species. 
Charasia blanfordiana, Stoliczka. 
The genus Charasia is peculiar to the Indian Peninsula, in 
which it takes the place of the Ethiopian and Palaearctic genus 
Agama found in the Himalayas as far east as the Little Nepal 
Valley. ‘Three species of Charasia are known, namely, Ch. ornata, 
the range of which extends from Central India to the Ganges Valley 
in the United Provinces and to Kutch in Sind; Ch. dorsalis, which 
appears to be confined to the hills and tablelands of S. India; 
and Ch. blanfordiana, which is common in the hills of W. Bengal 
(including the whole of Parésnath), at low altitudes among the 
hills of S. India and in Travancore along the base of the W. 
Ghats. It also occurs among low hills in Central India, but I 
have been unable to find any record of its occurrence in 
the Bombay Presidency. In S. India it is apparently rare above 
about 2,500 feet, its place being taken at higher altitudes by 
Ch. dorsalis, which is common in the neighbourhood of Banga- 
lore at an altitude of about 3,000 feet. Dr. J. R. Henderson 
tells me that he has only seen Ch. blanfordiana from low hills in 
the Chingleput district south of Madras, and he thinks from 
similar hills in the Nellore and North Arcot districts. 
Mabuia carinata (Schneid.). 
This common lizard is abundant on the lower slopes of Parés- 
nath. Several specimens from the base of the hill and its vicinity 
show a tendency for the frontal to split longitudinally. 
Lygosoma sikkimense (Blyth.). 
Mocoa sacra, Stoléczka, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, KU, p. 128, “pl. iv; 
fig. 4 (1872). 
